Summoned from his bed at 2 a.m., San Francisco private eye Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart), with thus far friendly copper Polhaus (Ward Bond), at the scene of the murder of his partner Archer, written and directed by John Huston from the Dashiell Hammett novel, in The Maltese Falcon, 1941.
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Seminal work, from author Dashiel Hammett through writer-director John Huston, with Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade and Mary Astor as (it turns out...) Brigid, deepening and darkening their characters following the murder of his partner, early in The Maltese Falcon, 1941.>

Spade (Humphrey Bogart) snaps at Effie (Lee Patrick) for letting his partner's widow Iva (Gladys George), with whom he has complex relations, into the office, in John Huston's The Maltese Falcon, 1941.>

Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) in his first meeting with perfumed and mysterious Joel Cairo (Peter Lorre), inquiring about a bird, in John Huston's The Maltese Falcon, 1941, from the Dashiell Hammett novel.>